New York Times bestselling astronaut Chris Hadfield is back with an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race. 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lun...(展开全部)

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and my...(展开全部)

In 1969, mankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin `Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins carried the fire for all of humankind. Backed by the brightest minds in engineering and science, the three boarded a rocket and flew through the void - just to know that we could. In Apollo, Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins unpack the urban legends, the gossip and the speculat...(展开全部)

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and my...(展开全部)

A baffler of the first order. -- New York Times A masterwork...stunningly original. -- Julian Symons Agatha Christie at her best. -- New York Herald Tribune Christie is beyond criticism. -- New Statesman and Nation --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Agatha Christie at her best. (New York Herald Tribune) A baffler of the first order. (New York Times) A masterwork.....(展开全部)

约翰•狄克森•卡尔（1906－1977） 史上最伟大的推理小说作家之一，举世公认的“密室推理之王”。其小说素以公平著称，线索隐蔽，解答惊人，具有超乎寻常的逻辑性、趣味性。他一生共设计了超过五十种密室，几乎每个都是构思精巧、无以复加；又兼其小说一贯具有的浓郁哥特风格，以及其谋篇布局的架构能力之强，自会让读者大呼过瘾，竞相传读。读推理，岂能不读密室；读密室，岂能不读卡尔！

The novel starts in the 1960s when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owners of a prominent clinic in a town on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. The youth who emerges as t...(展开全部)